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“To change behaviors in organizations, reorient to a different set of problems. Discussions of behavioral change fall prey to viewing things on a distinctly individualistic level, or through the traditional lenses of systems, structures and processes. Yet this isn’t how people really work.
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In the past decade organizations have invested significant resources to try to address the gender gap in senior management. But these efforts aren’t really working. Women account for just 3% of Fortune 500 CEOs and fewer than 15% of corporate executives at top companies worldwide. The only area where women pull ahead of men is in ...

The recent wave of populism spreading across the globe has pundits confused, and pollsters flabbergasted. The rise of Duterte, Trump, and Le Pen, and the British vote for Brexit have one thing in common: the bulk of people in the Developed World are angry. While politicians are the victims, or victors, of ...

The 70-20-10 mantra is bandied about in most corporate learning discussions like a toy weapon by a bunch of toddlers. But this intensity of focus lacks rigour — the “how” to do it.
Most solutions to access the “70” are a combination of e-learning modules, new performance management frameworks and ...

“How do you shift the behaviour of bankers? This was the subject of a conversation. All of the people involved had considerably more experience in financial services than me, so their perspectives were particularly striking. The low point of the conversation happened when one of them said this: \'Bankers ...

Change initiatives fail when senior leaders don’t see that their organizations are social systems. Organizations are defined by bundles of local relationships, social expectations, and unwritten rules that exist between thousands of people. These people create tribes — collections of like-minded people who build patterns around how work gets done. This system ...

Almost every organization goes through a painstaking process to identify high potentials. But what leaders do with high potentials then is just wrong. We isolate them, give them some posh-abstracted development program, and then send them back to work. If we really want to benefit high potentials,....
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Every CEO claims to struggle with the challenge of getting the right “talent,” but what does this really mean? Their real concern is: Do I have the people who will understand my agenda and be able to really change how work gets done, at pace? This is the wrong ...

Every day when we speak with clients who are looking to purchase software, and we hear the same concerns over and over again:
Will the software work?
Will my users like using it?
Will it actually make us more efficient?
So we spoke with our friend,.....
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Research shows that employees dislike their jobs, don’t trust their leaders, and aren’t engaged. If you’re a leader — or aspiring to be one — you should be frightened. Are organizations in the modern world built for leaders to fail? Or can you overcome these leadership challenges, and if ...